Paradise

Capo II * C F C G7 C F C G7 C G7 C C F C When I was a child my family would travel, G7 C down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born F C And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered, G7 C so many times that my memories are worn. C F C And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, G7 C down by the Green River where Paradise lay F C Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, G7 C Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away C F C Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River, G7 C to the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill F C Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols, G7 C but empty pop bottles was all we would k**l. C F C And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, G7 C down by the Green River where Paradise lay F C Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, G7 C Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away C F C G7 C F C G7 C G7 C C F C Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel, G7 C and they tortured the timber and stripped all the land F C Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken, G7 C then they wrote it all down as the progress of man. C F C And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, G7 C down by the Green River where Paradise lay F C Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, G7 C C G7 C Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away C F C When I die let my ashes float down the Green River, G7 C let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam F C I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin', G7 C just five miles away from wherever I am. C F C And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, G7 C down by the Green River where Paradise lay F C Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, G7 C Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away C F C G7 C F C G7 C G7 C . . .